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The Yeshiva Administrators wants busing for all and no mixed busing.
The State Monitor wants co-ed busing with one bus route for all students in the district.
The yeshivas could get separate busing by having the boy school start at 7:30 for Sacharis, morning prayers and having the girls start at 8:15 also for Sacharis, morning prayers. This way the boys are on their own bus the girls are on their bus and public school kids are on their bus.
As to busing for all . The Administrators have to swap students. So that a student that is a courtesy busing student in Yeshiva A is swapped with a courtesy busing student from Yeshiva B so that they are both mandated. This will necessitate the opening of additional classrooms. All the yeshivas have parking lots and if each of the 100 yeshivas put 3 modular classrooms there, it would open 10,000 additional seats at a minimal cost. The threat of having an additional 10,000 students on top of the current 25,000 maybe enough to convince the state to fund yeshiva busing separately.
The State Monitor saves money if the same buses used for the boy’s yeshivas are also used for the girls yeshivas and the public school students, just at different times, the cost should be less as there is no need for additional buses. The reason for the co-ed busing and to cut courtesy busing was just to save money which he has gotten. Both sides could claim victory.